XP PowerToy tips

[bryanh]

Just an FYI. After spending a while (hours) trying to figure out why the "Desktop Manager" was not available to all users on my XP machine I made the following discovery. When you set up the powertoys with the following command line in RunOnceEx

"%cdrom%\Apps\PowerToys\DeskmanPowertoySetup.exe" /s /v/qn

all the regisrty values go to HKCU and not HKLM. Therefore after the install of the PowerToys you may want to run the following Registry updates.

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{1530F7EE-5128-43BD-9977-84A4B0FAD7DF}]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{709C6E11-538F-4759-86AC-6ACB302AA0DE}]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{B48A93BC-5E8D-472B-8FE2-E53302C4548C}]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{EFB97CB8-a4a4-4357-a261-002FFAED0267}]



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{1530F7EE-5128-43BD-9977-84A4B0FAD7DF}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{1530F7EE-5128-43BD-9977-84A4B0FAD7DF}\InProcServer32]
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
@="K:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\phototoys.dll"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{709C6E11-538F-4759-86AC-6ACB302AA0DE}]
@="Desktop Manager"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{709C6E11-538F-4759-86AC-6ACB302AA0DE}\Implemented Categories]
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{709C6E11-538F-4759-86AC-6ACB302AA0DE}\Implemented Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{709C6E11-538F-4759-86AC-6ACB302AA0DE}\InProcServer32]
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
@="K:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\msvdm.dll"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B48A93BC-5E8D-472B-8FE2-E53302C4548C}]
@="Taskbar Magnifier"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B48A93BC-5E8D-472B-8FE2-E53302C4548C}\Implemented Categories]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B48A93BC-5E8D-472B-8FE2-E53302C4548C}\Implemented Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B48A93BC-5E8D-472B-8FE2-E53302C4548C}\InprocServer32]
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
@="K:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mag.dll"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{EFB97CB8-a4a4-4357-a261-002FFAED0267}]
@="CD Burn Slideshow Hook"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{EFB97CB8-a4a4-4357-a261-002FFAED0267}\InprocServer32]
@="K:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\slideshow.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

This will work for three of the PowerToys

1) Desktop Manager

2) Taskbar Magnifier

3) CD Burn Slideshow

Hope this saves someone so time.

Bryan

[Kemal]

I've actually been pondering this very problem myself this morning, was about to post a query about it.

I've been trying to get the task switcher powertoy to work. So does this mean I just need to find the registry keys in HKCU for the taskswitcher powertoy and also import them to HKLM or is it a bit more complicated than this?

[bryanh]

Actually I don't seem to have the problem with the Task-switcher (on a side note I am not liking the task switcher so much - it slows down my alt-tab on my P4 2.8HT machine).

The only powertoys I had the problem with were the three in the OP.

Bryan